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| 2007 School Levies - A crazy way to fund schools |
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Nearly 100 school districts went out for local levies in 2007. At the end of October, Parents United invited school levy volunteers to write to state leaders about how difficult it is to fund schools through local levies and the inequities local levies create. A sampling of these letters—many sent before the Nov. 7 votes were cast—is provided below. Toward the end of November, the Senate E-12 Education Budget Division hosted a special hearing to discuss the role of levies in education finance, examine levy results and hear citizen testimony on how the levy elections impacted local communities (Press Release). John Sievert, cochair of Stillwater Area Public Schools’ Vote Yes group testified at this hearing (written testimony).
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| Amy Elise Jones (Anoka-Hennepin) |
| Chris Leinen (Bemidji) |
| Wendy Thompson (Bemidji) |
| Gretchen Peterson (Big Lake) |
| Pat Altrichter (Brainerd) |
| Chris Kelly (Brainerd) |
| Bonnie Kriha (Brainerd) |
| Brett & Rachel Johnson (Breckenridge) |
| Steven Tolbert (Breckenridge) |
| Susan Martin (Burnsville-Eagan-Savage) |
| Laura Robinson (Burnsville-Eagan-Savage) |
| Vicki Schaefers (Burnsville-Eagan-Savage) |
| Margo Swanson (Burnsville-Eagan-Savage) |
| Ginny Wheeler (Burnsville-Eagan-Savage) |
| Amee Christensen (Farmington) |
| Joleen Giefer (Frazee-Vergas) |
| Lynette Stensgard (Inver Grove Heights) |
| Jody Chambers (Milaca) |
| Laurie Davis (Minneapolis) |
| Anne Hoops (Minneapolis) |
| Mary Jo Haeg (New Prague) |
| Jodi JP Diekmann (NorthStPaul-Maplewood-Oakdale) |
| Peter Zbaracki (Robbinsdale) |
| Amy Anderson (Roseville) |
| Michelle Howard (Roseville) |
| Missy McDonald (Roseville) |
| Denise Hanson (Sauk Rapids-Rice) |
| Wendy and Russ Pikus (Sauk Rapids-Rice) |
| Karla Scapanski (Sauk Rapids-Rice) |
| Debra Battah (Stillwater) |
| Natasha Fleischman (Stillwater) |
| Christy Hlavacek (Stillwater) |
| Julie Kostroski (Stillwater) |
| Beverly Petrie (Stillwater) |
| John Sievert (Stillwater) |
| Joan Steinmann (Saint Paul) |
| O. John Larson, Supt., (Truman) |
| Debi McConnell (West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan) |
| Gerald Anderson (White Bear Lake) |
| Jennifer Armstrong |
| Robert Manning |
| Van D. Mueller, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota |
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